Samantha Ehlinger reports: The Center for Health Care Services in San Antonio is notifying 28,434 local patients whose Social Security numbers, mental health and other sensitive records were stolen when a former employee allegedly took the data on his personal laptop after he was fired, the company said in a news release. The mental health…
Category: Theft
Insiders Accused of Stealing Personal Data From Homeland Security
Nicholas Fandos and Ron Nixon reports: It was an audacious scheme: an attempted inside job at the office of a federal watchdog agency, where the cops, the authorities said, became the robbers. Three employees in the inspector general’s office for the Department of Homeland Security stole a computer system that contained sensitive personal information of…
UK: Oxford and Cambridge Club hit by data breach after backup drive with members’ info stolen
Incredibly, they keep reporting this as “online data theft.” The theft of data that you intend to post online is not online data theft when it was your backup drive that was stolen from your brick and mortar headquarters. PTI reports: The Oxford and Cambridge Club, one of the United Kingdom’s most elite gentlemen’s clubs…
Central Jersey medical practice reports records breach
We now know the name of a medical practice that was impacted by the theft of patient records in September. The records had reportedly been sold at the time by the thief. Mike Deak reports: A medical practice with offices in East Brunswick and Franklin is notifying past patients that 13 boxes of medical records…
Medical records stolen from Roger Williams Medical Center
Susan Campbell reports: Medical records and other personal information for dozens of patients were stolen from Roger Williams Medical Center, Eyewitness News has learned. An individual broke into the registration area of the hospital on Sept. 13, 2017, and stole paperwork including the medical information of more than 60 patients, according to Otis Brown, vice…
ICE Leads Investigation Into Medical Records Stolen From East Brunswick
There’s a follow-up to an incident previously reported on this site. Charlie Kratovil reports: A Sayreville man was arrested on September 12 and charged with “selling medical records that he stole from a storage unit in East Brunswick,” according to the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office (MCPO). Authorities stated that “over 1,000 medical records,” which contained…